Time and Emergence in Grammar (Studies in Language and Social Interaction) - Hardcover

Pekarek Doehler, Simona; De Stefani, Elwys; Horlacher, Anne-Sylvie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027226385 ISBN 13: 9789027226389

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015

Synopsis

This monograph examines how language contributes to the social coordination of actions in talk-in-interaction. Focusing on a set of frequently used constructions in French (left-dislocation, right-dislocation, topicalization, and hanging topic), the study provides an empirically rich contribution to the understanding of grammar as thoroughly temporal, emergent, and contingent upon its use in social interaction. Based on data from a range of everyday interactions, the authors investigate speakers' use of these constructions as resources for organizing social interaction, showing how speakers continuously adapt, revise, and extend grammatical trajectories in real time in response to local contingencies. The book is designed to be both informative for the specialized scholar and accessible to the graduate student familiar with conversation analysis and/or interactional linguistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027226385
• ISBN 13: 9789027226389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 285